I’ll take “Statements the Ottawa Politboru wrote for the Chinese defector” for $500, Alex.
The buck stops … at media availability.
Our Chinese-Installed Government In Ottawa
His real name is Ma Wing-tsung, but his friends call him “Proxy”.
The exchange on Thursday struck some online observers as extraordinary, in part due to the standing of the witness: Margaret McCuaig-Johnston, a 37-year veteran of the federal public service who served on the Canada-China Joint Committee on Science and Technology for the final seven years of her government career, holds a master’s degree in International Relations with a focus on China, and has visited China multiple times since 1979.
Michael Ma, the member of Parliament for Markham-Unionville, opened his questioning by asking McCuaig-Johnston whether she held an advanced degree in cybersecurity — framing it as a yes-or-no question. She replied that she did not, but added: “I have spent 37 years in that business. Ok.”
Ma interjected repeatedly, pressing her for “short answers.” He noted that she is affiliated with the China Strategic Risk Institute, a line of questioning that appeared designed to suggest the witness was professionally predisposed to identify threats emanating from Beijing.
He then asked: “This question then, is — you claim about forced labour in Xinjiang. Have you witnessed this yourself? Have you been there ever?”
Your Daily Librano
They’re not even trying to hide it anymore.
Exec @CIB_en confirms @Liberal_Party friends got easy terms on $206M loan for Atlantic wind farm with no payments due unless they turn a profit: "That's why the Bank exists." https://t.co/c8fKcGAFT9 @LeslynLewis @PLawrenceCan pic.twitter.com/BYziGWB4ZC
— Blacklock's Reporter (@mindingottawa) March 26, 2026
BREAKING NEWS
A $206 MILLION taxpayer-backed loan given to Liberal insiders connected to former MPs.
Small businesses in Haldimand—Norfolk are paying ~8% interest.
So what rate did the Canada Infrastructure Bank give a wind project tied to Liberal insiders?
If public money is… pic.twitter.com/AmSwrVR3WF
— Dr. Leslyn Lewis (@LeslynLewis) March 26, 2026
The Vibe Economy
It’s my sense that interest rates are going to head down, not up, as the economy sours. While energy prices might be going up, their effect can be offset by slumping demand as businesses halt energy intensive projects. But in any case, David Rosenberg is spot on about there being no “vibrancy of demand” in the Canadian economy.
“But we are in a totally different orbit than we were back then,” Rosenberg said. “Where is the vibrancy of demand growth in a Canadian economy? It is nonexistent.”
First-quarter growth will likely come in below one per cent annualized, according to the latest gross domestic product data, well off the Bank of Canada’s forecast of 1.8 per cent, and core inflation has inched ever closer to the central bank’s two per cent target, though headline inflation is expected to accelerate on higher energy prices.
Pardon, Not Sorry
Air Canada CEO summoned to Ottawa over English-only condolence message after plane crash
He, Too, Admires Their Basic Dictatorship
The Supreme Court is an apex appellate court; its function is to give the final word solely on points of law, and certainly not to conduct a de novo trial, repeating the evidence-gathering work of the court of first instance. So what exactly is the point of the week-long jamboree and its parade of interveners? Are there novel and pertinent social or legal facts to be studied?
It is almost, as Sarkonak observes, as though the court were taking the work of a parliamentary committee onto itself — as if it were revving up to legislate in an area with profound social and political implications, in precisely the way parliamentary deputies would be traditionally expected to.
The Government of Canada is encouraging the Supreme Court to, on its own motion, capture new and previously unimagined powers for itself. It proposes that the court should be able to block some uses of the notwithstanding clause because, if renewed by successive governments often enough, they might create “irreparable impairments” to the enumerated rights and freedoms suspended. (Look into your crystal balls!) The government also invites the court to allow idle “declarations of invalidity” on statutes that use the clause: it proposes, in fact, that the court should be permitted to do this for explicitly electoral purposes, because “voters and their representatives are not always necessarily in a position to determine for themselves whether a law respects Charter rights and freedoms.”
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Related news from the Governor’s office: Carney is giving the Anti-Hate Network a say over what speech to restrict
Today In The Vote Rich Rapey-Beheader Community
SANCTIONS: The U.S. Treasury has sanctioned the Canadian company Seven Seas for International Trading and Logistics, a Vancouver-based company, over alleged ties to a $100 million Hezbollah financing network led by financier Alaa Hassan Hamieh.
Assets under U.S. jurisdiction are now frozen and American entities are barred from doing business with the firm, as authorities say the network used multiple front companies to move funds supporting Hezbollah operations.
No shit, Muhammad: B.C.’s Ministry of Finance said the province was not alerted to the situation before the U.S. announcement
Related terror funding: FOI documents reveal that “Toronto Palestinian Families” received $99,500 in federal money to conduct these workshops…
Cold, Canuck Hands
It’s the eyes. They always have those eyes.
👀 UNHINGED: Desperation is beginning to show from the federal Liberals as MP @NathalieProvost and Safety Minister @Gary_SRP announce truly dismal participation numbers (only 51,000 declarations) with only a week to go in the failed gun confiscation program.
Q&A starts @ 4:38 👇 pic.twitter.com/X9QdlOSQB9
— CCFR/CCDAF (@CCFR_CCDAF) March 23, 2026
Is Our Diversities Learing?
Immigration fraud has overwhelmed Canada’s international student program, the Auditor General found Monday, with 153,000 students flagged as potentially non-compliant, funding to investigate only 2,000 potential fraud cases per year, and nearly all of 800 individuals who fraudulently entered Canada later approved for permanent status or immigration extensions.
One number above all others defines the scale of the failure: of 153,000 international students flagged as potentially non-compliant with Canadian study permit conditions, the federal government investigated fewer than 4,100 — laying bare an enforcement system so overwhelmed it cannot meaningfully police the program it is mandated to protect.
New Governor, Same As The Old Governor
Can you imagine the trouble we’d be in had the Liberals kept the not-smart Governor?
November 17, 2025: Algoma Steel Group Inc. (NASDAQ: ASTL; TSX: ASTL) (“Algoma” or “the Company”), a leading Canadian producer of hot and cold rolled steel sheet and plate products, today announced that it has completed its $500 million financing transaction with the Governments of Canada and Ontario, consistent with the binding term sheets announced on September 29, 2025.
March 23, 2026: One of the largest rounds of layoffs in Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., history is officially happening today. Hundreds of employees with Algoma Steel have worked their final shift at the plant as the company transitions from its blast furnace and coke production to electric steelmaking.
Diversity Is Our Strength
What’s so special about Tim Hortons?
If fast food franchises can't function without importing foreign workers, let them close their doors.
What, exactly, is the downside? It's not as though locals are losing their jobs. https://t.co/tqXmLmQV1K
— Katewerk (@katewerk) March 22, 2026
h/t Victor
The Dirty Little Secret Of Socialism
Nobody needs to live in New York.
🚨BREAKING: New York Governor Kathy Hochul is facing BACKLASH after telling Republicans to “jump on a bus and head down to Florida” not long ago. Now, she’s urging wealthy New Yorkers to come back to New York. pic.twitter.com/GzsoUtxHlq
— I Meme Therefore I Am 🇺🇸 (@ImMeme0) March 19, 2026
Or Canada.
Update: Three credit rating agencies have revised New York City outlook to “negative” from “stable.”
A Meaty Problem
On a recent trip to Golf Town I noticed that new clubs are now locked in place so you have to get a clerk to get one out for you to examine. How long will it be before grocery stores are doing the same thing for steaks and roasts?
Police in Richmond, B.C., are investigating after a series of meat thefts from retail stores that they say may be “organized” crime.
RCMP say that there have been 39 cases of reported theft of meat from stores across the city since December.
Our Chinese-Installed Governor In Ottawa
Blacklocks; Prime Minister Mark Carney misled media on his private meetings with Chinese Communist leaders, Privy Council records show. Documents written by cabinet aides directly contradicted Carney’s claims that he raised human rights and foreign interference with his Beijing hosts: “On human rights, with the President, yes, we did discuss human rights.”
Related: Iran’s Kill Network Ran Through Toronto
There’s No Business Case For LNG Exports
Where Europe gets its gas.
Ezra Levant with Lorne Gunter: Why Are Liberals Still Destroying Canada’s Energy Industry Despite Their Promises?
Exploding Our Debt
I would suggest a headline change to “Carney buys votes in Quebec and Ontario“. That aside, wouldn’t it be cheaper to just buy 155 mm artillery shells from places that already make such a commonly available munition? It’s also worth asking if this is a case of governments getting ready to fight the last war.
Ottawa will pump more than $1 billion in public funds into new facilities in Ingersoll, Ont., and Repentigny, Que., for heavy munitions used in artillery.
Related, from Kate: 10 massive Canadian federal projects (2010-2025) that delivered almost ZERO benefits or were never built
Making History
This is not the kind of history that any level of government should be making. But I guess it’s okay, as long as we call the spending “investment”.
The New Brunswick government says its investments in health care have helped push the budget into a record deficit. Introduced on Tuesday, the budget’s $1.4-billion deficit is the largest in the province’s history, according to Finance Department staff.
Speaking of investments…
The federal government is putting $200 million toward a Canadian-owned launch pad so it can send satellites into orbit without the assistance of other nations or other foreign third parties.
Gradually, Then Suddenly
2. Canada is now a net importer of electricity.
/3 pic.twitter.com/M07s5P2nab— Heather Exner-Pirot (@ExnerPirot) March 16, 2026
Threadrolled here.
New Governor, Same As The Old Governor
At the start of the Ukraine war (2022), Canada’s carbon price was $40/tonne.
On April 1 2026, it reaches $110/tonne — more than double.
For a truck hauling food Toronto–Montreal weekly, that’s roughly $6,000 more per year vs 2018.
And that doesn’t include higher fuel prices… pic.twitter.com/xVvKkACoz4
— The Food Professor (@FoodProfessor) March 15, 2026
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New Governor, Same As The Old Governor
Strategic Partnering, Jan 16th
In a more divided and uncertain world, Canada is building a stronger, more independent, and more resilient economy. To that end, Canada’s new government is working with urgency and determination to diversify our trade partnerships and catalyse massive new levels of investment. As the world’s second-largest economy, China presents enormous opportunities for Canada in this mission.
Strategic Partnering, March 13th
Beaver Brook could be the largest North American producer of antimony — a critical mineral threaded through the entire spectrum of modern military hardware, from small arms and artillery shells to advanced missile seekers and night-vision goggles.
But China owns the mine and shut it down in early 2023 — one year before Beijing imposed export controls blocking antimony sales to U.S. military end users, driving prices from about US$5,900 per tonne to more than US$50,000.